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Word: listening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner at which Stassen made his public announcement last week were in the mail even before he talked to Eisenhower in Paris. When Stassen called on Ike, said the friend, the general used his widely known device for preventing political complications. He called in an aide to listen to every word that was said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Third Man's Theme | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...ambassadors do more than-talk to foreign ministers. They are also public-relations men with a whole nation for a client. They make speeches, inspect public works, judge flower shows, organize charities. They talk to labor leaders, opposition politicians, businessmen. And while they talk, they listen. For the other side of their job is to be the U.S.'s eyes & ears. On their reading of tempers and political moods Washington bases much of its timing and many of its decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: U.S. Ambassadors | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...these men who speak, look and listen for 155 million Americans? Most are career diplomats, painstaking, patient men who have come up the long ladder through minor embassy jobs to their final rewards. The typical career diplomat was born on the Eastern seaboard and graduated from an Ivy League college (though the younger, rising generation is more scattered in origin and education). His training makes him an observer rather than a doer, a compromiser rather than a shaker, a man of caution rather than a man of decision. Only a rare few have private means of their own, and except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: U.S. Ambassadors | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

Although there are still troubles to be ironed out (e.g., too much amplification feeds sound from loudspeakers back to microphone, causing a loud, cacophonous howl), churchmen were favorably impressed. Now congregations should be able to listen to historic chants, sermons will sound as if they actually come from the pulpit, not from the older loudspeakers that were spotted under seats and in other improbable locations. The engineers, said Archdeacon Gibbs-Smith, have been clever enough to preserve "the sense of the numinous [consciousness of the Holy] which is so vital in divine worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deus et Scientia | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...25th anniversary of WMPC, well-loved Frank Hemingway was not on hand. Ill of diabetes, and the after-effects of a stroke last year, worn down by nightly vigils of prayer for his ailing wife, the 57-year-old minister collapsed two hours before the ceremony, and had to listen in like one of his own shut-ins while his friends sang old hymns such as Bringing in the Sheaves, prayed God to "bless our pastor and his wife and lift them tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ministry in Lapeer | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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